Einstein@Home is a new share-your-computer-for-the-sake-of-science project. Instead of looking for aliens (SETI@home), this time you would be looking for gravity waves.

Einstein@Home is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from rapidly rotating neutron stars, known as pulsars. Scientists believe that some pulsars may not be perfectly spherical, and if so, they should emit characteristic gravitational waves, which LIGO and GEO 600 will begin to detect in coming months.

The sign-up form for Einstein@Home can be found here.

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